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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 433.024

INSPECTION OF PROCESSING AND SLAUGHTERING ESTABLISHMENTS

Known as the Texas Meat and Poultry Inspection Act

The act spans §§ 433.001–433.100 (64 sections).

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff

(a) The department shall inspect each processing establishment in which livestock is slaughtered and meat and meat food products of the livestock are prepared solely for intrastate commerce as necessary to obtain information about the establishment's sanitary conditions.

(b) The department shall inspect each slaughtering establishment whose primary business is the selling of livestock to be slaughtered by the purchaser on premises owned or operated by the seller. This subsection does not nullify the provisions in Section 433.006 relating to exemptions or Section 433.0065 relating to an animal share exemption.

(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules governing sanitation maintenance in processing and slaughtering establishments as defined by this section.

(d) If sanitary conditions of a processing establishment render meat or meat food products adulterated, the department shall prohibit the meat or meat food products from being labeled, marked, stamped, or tagged as "Texas inspected and passed."

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.